I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.